Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to alinuxinterfaceforonaccess scanning

douglas.leeder
2008-08-15T14:19:38Z

Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote on 2008-08-15 14:55:37:

> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 02:22:27PM +0100, douglas.leeder@sophos.com
wrote:
> >
> > This is a problem for current anti-malware scanning, as virus data
updates
> > come every few hours
>
> Every few hours?!? I hadn't noticed Windows AV programs getting
> updates that frequently, at least not the ones that I've been familiar
> with. (Semantec, Norton, McAfee)

>From one of our Linux machines that configured to update normally:
Fri 15 Aug 2008 15:02:23 BST
Fri 15 Aug 2008 12:52:19 BST
Fri 15 Aug 2008 08:32:24 BST
Fri 15 Aug 2008 04:12:27 BST
Fri 15 Aug 2008 02:02:23 BST

That was the sort of time period I remember being told -
but the AV products probably don't make a song and
dance about a small virus data updates so you probably wouldn't notice
them.

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